HAPAX Magazine issue 2 includes newly commissioned works by Alice Duncan, Gaia Cambiaggi, Jo Longhurst, Sana Ginwalla and Yvette Monahan. With new curations from Eva Eicker considering the work of Bieke Depoorter, Emil Lombardo, and Zora J. Murff and Rana Young; and Isabella Seniuta curating images from the archive of James Barnor.

ISSN 2754-2882
80 pages
Softcover, stitched binding and gatefolds
Published Summer 2022 (UK)
Dimension 23.5 x 17.5 cm

ARTIST COMMISSIONS:

Alice Duncan currently lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her practice mediates between science, archaeology and photography to expose the multifaceted, ever-changing and (most importantly) constructed nature of our personal and cultural identities. Specifically, Alice combines analogue and digital image-making techniques to visualise the complexities involved in collectively living on colonised land. Alice’s work has been exhibited across Australia and internationally.

Gaia Cambiaggi is a photographer based in Italy whose varied portfolio includes portraiture and commissions to document architectural projects and man- made landscapes. Her work has taken her across Europe, Asia and Central and South America. A long time digital refusenik with an analogue heart, she prefers to shoot on film. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and published internationally.

Jo Longhurst is an artist living and working in London who explores and critiques traditions of portraiture through a combination of photography, sculptural elements, moving image, performance and installation. Collaborative works with show dogs and elite gymnasts investigate the act of looking and being looked at: how we judge and are judged, and how we attempt to fit in. Exploring both physical and emotional experiences, Jo questions theories of eugenics, representation, gender, power and control - gently probing how cultural ideas of perfection shape personal and national identities, as well as social and political systems.

Sana Ginwalla is a Zambia-born photographer and curator interested in politics of identity, home and belonging. Her work produced in and about Zambia has consistently focused on showcasing the overlooked and relatable everyday moments from the past and present. She is the founder and creative director of Everyday Lusaka and Zambia Belonging – art platforms dedicated to exploring a more considered visual representation of Zambia in order to build a contemporary archive for future generations.

Yvette Monahan is an Irish photographic artist. Yvette’s practice looks to further her understanding of three main ideas, namely intuition, transcendence, and narrative. She engages with different processes in order to investigate these precepts, incorporating photography, drawing, and print-making. Yvette aims to create images that reflect the inner world and outer spaces.  

CURATOR COMMISSIONS:

Eva Eicker is a photography curator living in London. She focusses on social and cultural issues for a critical engagement with contemporary photography. With a background in Anthropology, Eicker has a keen interest in interdisciplinary aspects such as sound and materiality in relation to photography. She curated the exhibition Anna Barriball and Dirk Braeckman at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020). During her time at The Photographers’ Gallery (London) she was curating the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for many years; as well as Noemie Goudal: Southern Light Stations (2016) and Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines (2018).

Isabella Seniuta is an Art Historian and Independent Curator living and working in France. She is the author of a thesis on the history of "the Eye Club", a network of actors that helped shape the emerging photography market between Paris and New York in the 1960s-1980s. She co-curated the traveling exhibition "Gilles Caron, an Imperfect World", with Guillaume Blanc and Clara Bouveresse (2019-2021). She is the co-curator of the next exhibition dedicated to James Barnor which will open in July 2022 at the LUMA Foundation in Arles.